Tim Zimmermann
@earthist.bsky.social
Writer, Vegan, Animal Activist, Blackfish Co-Creator. Minimalist living afloat and trying to not be part of the problem.
Endowing Nature with legal rights is a key to protecting a liveable planet. But it is an argument that corporations hate (for obvious reasons). Courts and judges need to step up. grist.org/equity/in-ca...
In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue mining companies violate the rights of nature
In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...
grist.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Endowing Nature with legal rights is a key to protecting a liveable planet. But it is an argument that corporations hate (for obvious reasons). Courts and judges need to step up. grist.org/equity/in-ca...
Russia's War Has Destroyed Forest Twice the Size of New York City
e360.yale.edu
March 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#Shark tourism doesn't need stricter regulations. It needs to stop. Admire sharks. Enjoy seeing them if you see them. But they shouldn't be turned into food-needy tourist entertainment. If we go into Nature we should go as lightly as possible and do no harm.
Feeding Sharks For Tourism May Be Harming Their Health And Reproduction
Shark tourism needs a diet change! New research highlights the need for stricter regulations on shark feeding tourism, as the current practice may be doing more harm than good.
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Shark tourism needs a diet change! New research highlights the need for stricter regulations on shark feeding tourism, as the current practice may be doing more harm than good.
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Feeding Sharks For Tourism May Be Harming Their Health And Reproduction
Shark tourism needs a diet change! New research highlights the need for stricter regulations on shark feeding tourism, as the current practice may be doing more harm than good.
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#Shark tourism doesn't need stricter regulations. It needs to stop. Admire sharks. Enjoy seeing them if you see them. But they shouldn't be turned into food-needy tourist entertainment. If we go into Nature we should go as lightly as possible and do no harm.
I can’t understand why major news organizations and the WHCA are not organizing a boycott of the daily briefing and standing up to this. #Sad. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
White House Correspondents’ Association cedes control of pool reports to Trump administration
The move breaks from decades of cooperation between the White House and the journalists who cover the president.
www.politico.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I can’t understand why major news organizations and the WHCA are not organizing a boycott of the daily briefing and standing up to this. #Sad. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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There's a more than 50% chance that seven years from now, we will exhaust our carbon budget to stay under 1.5°C. #DontLookUp
There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton nuclear weapon. Here are its possible impact points.
This Is Where Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike
There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton nuclear weapon. Here are its possible impact points.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
There's a more than 50% chance that seven years from now, we will exhaust our carbon budget to stay under 1.5°C. #DontLookUp
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Fantastic investigative reporting from the @desmog.bsky.social team in lifting lid on how Big Six global ad agencies help to greenwash planet-killing fossil fuel clients, while claiming to be “on a journey” to zero carbon.
www.desmog.com/2025/02/10/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/02/10/a...
Ad Firms Make Oil Companies Look Green. Here’s Six Ways They Greenwash Themselves.
Imagine spending countless hours producing a catchy ad campaign that’s now blanketing the internet. Views are bubbling up like champagne fizz. The creative team is high-fiving each other down the hall...
www.desmog.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Fantastic investigative reporting from the @desmog.bsky.social team in lifting lid on how Big Six global ad agencies help to greenwash planet-killing fossil fuel clients, while claiming to be “on a journey” to zero carbon.
www.desmog.com/2025/02/10/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/02/10/a...
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PSA: The people destroying the planet have names and faces that they'd rather you not recognize or remember.
You already know Elon Musk. You need to know Harold Hamm.
The billionaire oil tycoon's fingerprints are all over Trump's high-speed push to crush environmental regulation and renewables.
heated.world
February 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
PSA: The people destroying the planet have names and faces that they'd rather you not recognize or remember.
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Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵
It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
www.newstatesman.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵
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Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Pickering’s latest documentary, I Could Never Go Vegan hit US streaming platforms on December 3rd, and was released on UK streaming platforms on December 30th!
For more information, visit I Could Never Go Vegan’s official website. https://s.mtrbio.com/efzktkopcw
For more information, visit I Could Never Go Vegan’s official website. https://s.mtrbio.com/efzktkopcw
January 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Pickering’s latest documentary, I Could Never Go Vegan hit US streaming platforms on December 3rd, and was released on UK streaming platforms on December 30th!
For more information, visit I Could Never Go Vegan’s official website. https://s.mtrbio.com/efzktkopcw
For more information, visit I Could Never Go Vegan’s official website. https://s.mtrbio.com/efzktkopcw
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
That is one of my life goals.
Every year, my cycling goal is not to be hit by a driver operating a motor vehicle.
January 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
That is one of my life goals.
It is true they are "dying," but it is also true that they are dying because they are mostly being mass-exterminated by factory farms which keep them in conditions which promote the onset and spread of bird flu.
The egg industry has been impacted by a surge of bird flu cases, with more than 13 million egg-laying hens dying in December. That means a dozen large, Grade A eggs cost an average of $4.15 -- a nearly 37% increase from the year before. via @kcur.org
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It is true they are "dying," but it is also true that they are dying because they are mostly being mass-exterminated by factory farms which keep them in conditions which promote the onset and spread of bird flu.
Good to know!
January 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Good to know!
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Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.
January 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.
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Critical insight from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: you can't have a revival of critical mineral extraction and processing without a clean energy industry to buy your product. Yet day-one EOs are fixated on tearing down EV demand, solar/wind, factories funded by IIJA/IRA.
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
January 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Critical insight from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: you can't have a revival of critical mineral extraction and processing without a clean energy industry to buy your product. Yet day-one EOs are fixated on tearing down EV demand, solar/wind, factories funded by IIJA/IRA.
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
Ugh. Another exclusive outpost for the super-rich, as they continue to colonize all the beauty on the planet. De Niro's hotel group shdn't be called Paradise Found. It shd be Paradise Wrecked. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/t...
Where to Find Pink Sand, Palm Trees and Robert De Niro
The actor has long had a second career as a hotelier and restaurateur. Now, he and his partners are planning to open a luxury inn on the Caribbean island of Barbuda.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ugh. Another exclusive outpost for the super-rich, as they continue to colonize all the beauty on the planet. De Niro's hotel group shdn't be called Paradise Found. It shd be Paradise Wrecked. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/t...
We're not doing very well. e360.yale.edu/digest/2024-...
Carbon Dioxide Levels Rose by a Record Amount Last Year
e360.yale.edu
January 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We're not doing very well. e360.yale.edu/digest/2024-...
The marine industry wins again. #Whales lose, per usual. We are trading #rightwhales for commerce and convenience. Tragic. grist.org/oceans/feder...
Biden administration gives up on lower ocean speed limits to protect right whales
A proposal to lower speed limits on waterways — boat strikes kill a large number of the whales — was dropped in face of next administration.
grist.org
January 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The marine industry wins again. #Whales lose, per usual. We are trading #rightwhales for commerce and convenience. Tragic. grist.org/oceans/feder...
Welp.
The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii has recorded the biggest annual jump in atmospheric CO2 levels since measurements started there in 1958. www.newscientist.com/article/2464...
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
www.newscientist.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Welp.
More frequent and widespread food and food pricing disruptions due to #climate change are in our future. I hope the rest of the media is willing to make the climate connection for readers. Thanks @guardian-climate.bsky.social
UK faces broccoli and cauliflower shortage this spring: Growers blame weather challenges in UK and Europe, which Met Office says will become more frequent with climate breakdown Broccoli, cauliflower and other brassicas may be in short supply this spring as the mild autumn and winter has...
UK faces broccoli and cauliflower shortage this spring
UK faces broccoli and cauliflower shortage this spring: Growers blame weather challenges in UK and Europe, which Met Office says will become more frequent with climate breakdown Broccoli, cauliflower and other brassicas may be in short supply this spring as the mild autumn and winter has...
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
More frequent and widespread food and food pricing disruptions due to #climate change are in our future. I hope the rest of the media is willing to make the climate connection for readers. Thanks @guardian-climate.bsky.social
Essential reading from @katherinejwu.com @theatlantic.com.
For months, we've passively watched H5N1 tear through animals. A year into the cattle outbreak & it remains out of control. H5N1 is everywhere.
If H5N1 causes a pandemic, it will be because we let it.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
For months, we've passively watched H5N1 tear through animals. A year into the cattle outbreak & it remains out of control. H5N1 is everywhere.
If H5N1 causes a pandemic, it will be because we let it.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment
America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.
www.theatlantic.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Scientists prize neutrality – that doesn’t cut it any more. In 2025, they must fully back the climate movement | Bill McGuire and Roger Hallam
Scientists prize neutrality – that doesn’t cut it any more. In 2025, they must fully back the climate movement | Bill McGuire and Roger Hallam
With 2024 set to go down as the hottest year on record, we know that what is coming is truly horrifying
The past 12 months have seen our world enter new territory. Last year will go down as the first time that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5C…
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Scientists prize neutrality – that doesn’t cut it any more. In 2025, they must fully back the climate movement | Bill McGuire and Roger Hallam
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I love this figure 🌍🌡️🔥💚👇
"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm
This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
January 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I love this figure 🌍🌡️🔥💚👇
Since #mainstreammedia doesn’t want to rile up #Maga world or #fossilfuel advertisers, @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social has you covered in explaining the role of #climatechange in th #LAfires. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-...
The role of climate change in the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles fires » Yale Climate Connections
Summer dry seasons are extending into winter, intensifying the impacts of Santa Ana winds.
yaleclimateconnections.org
January 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Since #mainstreammedia doesn’t want to rile up #Maga world or #fossilfuel advertisers, @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social has you covered in explaining the role of #climatechange in th #LAfires. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-...